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30 September 2008
Star (Wars) turn out in Hollywood for Google Car
Darth Vader (and friend) recently took a trip to Hollywood to get their picture taken by the Google Car. Whether this is a hostile move by Darth remains to be seen but he does look particularly menacing.
To see the original of this once in a lifetime piece of photography just hit the link.
[from io9].
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30 September 2008
Google testing different size search result descriptions
Image thanks to TechCrunch
Yesterday a Webmaster World forum thread reported that some users were being given the ability by Google to change the length of their search result descriptions. Users reported being able to select ‘S’, ‘M’ or ‘L’ to change the length of the snippet.
It appears that longer snippets were being formed from the [...]
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29 September 2008
Google gets search results very badly wrong
As you probably know, Paul Newman, the American actor and film director, died on Friday after a long battle with cancer. Michael Gray spotted that a search for ‘Paul Newman dead’ brings the results shown above, with number 1 result being a story on Digg - ‘Paul Newman believed dead in plane crash‘.
This is a [...]
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27 September 2008
Bloggle welcomes a second writer
Image by heliosphan
I probably ought to have made this post a few days ago but since there won’t be much news today perhaps its more appropriate to post it now.
You may have noticed a few posts by someone other than ‘Dave Shaw’ appearing on Bloggle. Ross Turner has been helping by writing a number of [...]
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27 September 2008
September 27th - The day everyone finally wants cake
Google is 10 today as you might have seen from their special birthday logo or read on the Official Google Blog. Why today? Becuase September 27th is the day Google feels like eating cake.
As I wrote ealier this month, Google’s *real* birthday is generally thought to be on September 7 because that’s the day that [...]